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• New capital muscles into the reinsurance business

  12 July 2013

  Hedge funds, pension funds and wealth managers are among the newer investors reshaping the way that reinsurance operates and prices risk. These non-traditional investors like the returns available and the lack of correlation with other capital markets. But do they fully appreciate the risks? Sarfraz Thind reports

• US reinsurance rates remain under pressure at 1 July renewals

  09 July 2013

  Pricing to trend downwards for the rest of the year, say brokers

• UK's Flood Re capitalised for 1 in 200-year event

  27 June 2013

  Agreement struck between government and industry to provide flood cover for at-risk property

• US has more reservations about Solvency II than a year ago

  21 June 2013

  The federal threat to the US system of state-based insurance supervision is waning, according to Jim Donelon and Ben Nelson, the president and CEO of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, but international pressure for reform is an ever-present danger. In a Q&A with InsuranceERM, the new officials also discuss progress on reinsurance collateral, the ORSA and principles-based reserving

• Eiopa highlights new capital flows into reinsurance

  12 June 2013

  ILS, collateralised reinsurance and sidecars add $35bn

• Cat bonds move from "sideshow to main tent"

  20 May 2013

  Issuance totalled $1.6bn in Q1 2013, says WCMA

• Global P&C market to grow by 50% by 2020

  17 May 2013

  Reinsurance growth will be slower than primary, says Munich Re

• Eiopa calls for stakeholder group members

  14 May 2013

  Applicants for re/insurance and pensions groups wanted by 23 June

• Q-Re appoints CRO

  14 May 2013

  And 12 other senior management positions

• RenRe's weather risk business returns to first quarter profit

  03 May 2013

  Cold winter boosts result